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Penny For My Thoughts

Sad but funny, my mother-in-law hated cats, dogs, anything and everything. She was most kind to her youngest son, Willy who had a disability, speech and possibly somewhat mental, although I think most of...

0 comments    children friends google
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Alzheimer's: How Amyloid Beta Reduces Plasticity Related to Synaptic Signaling

The early stages of Alzheimer's disease are thought to occur at the synapse, since synapse loss is associated with memory dysfunction. Evidence suggests that amyloid beta (Aβ) plays an important role in...

0 comments    amyloid synaptic signaling
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For Love Or Money: Caring For The Elderly

Caring for the elderly is one of the biggest challenges that anyone may have to face. I have done it for pay and I have done it for love, and I can say that the amount that you get paid is not near enough...

4 comments    family relationships elderly
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Dementia and Home Safety

This has stopped being funny; The errors in word choice, forgetting the grand-kids names, the increasing social isolation, the changing of life-long habits. Dementia has many faces and when it has gotten a...

0 comments    health dementia home safety
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Is Total Abstinence A Lifestyle?

Sunset on the Atlantic Ocean near Crooked Island, Bahamas. Crooked Island provides residents and visitors the opportunity to relax and enjoy a peaceful atmosphere away from the madness of a hectic life. The...

2 comments    love relationships food
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The Far Reaching Effects of Alzheimer's

It is currently accepted that over 5,500,000 in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's. Along with this, there are another 20,000,000 people with significant memory impairment.Frightfully, there is another...

0 comments    alzheimer's disease
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Can Resveratrol Make You Live Longer Naturally?

Resveratrol is a particular chemical found to be naturally occurring in plants and foods with red skins, and also in some nuts. Scientists became interested in exploring potential health benefits of...

8 comments    health food heart
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Alzheimer's Disease: The Long Goodbye

From the moment one is born to the time he ages into an elder, hundreds of thousands of memories are made. Those memories are supposed to remain with him, so that if bad luck strikes and he loses everything,...

0 comments    health disease aging
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Fascinating Facts about Essential Fatty Acids

These are fats that are not produced by the body and so must be ingested in one form or another because they are necessary for good health. They are polyunsaturated, which means they are liquid at room...

2 comments    cancer arthritis breast cancer
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Alzheimer's - A National Family Crisis

Alzheimer's, Dementia are not dirty words, they represent a national family crisis

0 comments    treatment memory dementia
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